Improvement in clothes-pounders



M. w.,FBY. 'Clothes-Powders.

Pa'tentd May 19,1874.

Witnesses:

UNITED STATES MICHAEL W. FRY, OF GUYANDOTTE, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO' HIM- PATENT OjEEoEo SELF, WILLIAM M. HOVEY, AND JOHN B. HITE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-POUNDERS.

vSpeciication forming partof Letters Patent No. 151,1 i3, dated May 19, 1874; application iile February 2, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it'known that I, MICHAEL IV. FRY, of Guyandotte, in the county of Cabell and State of W'est Virginia, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Founder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing fornlin g a part of this speciiication, in which is represented a sectional elevation of my improved pounder.

The :invention relates to means whereby water, soapsuds, or washing-Huid may be4 forced through clothes and the dirt eliminated therefrom without using the ordinary wash-boards or rubbers. The invention consists in a clothes-pounder, and will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

A represents a tube, open at both ends, and provided with the spider or cross-bars a at the bottom or inside. B is a piston, fitting in said tube, having the side-aperturedspipes C, with valve-seats o, and ball-valves c, and the central socket D, in which is fastened the vertical handle E. rIhe socket D may be snstained in place by the braces d, and is caused to it over apiston, F, which is supported on a rod rising from the bars ai, and centrally iixedY in the tube A. Between the lower end of handle E and the piston F is placed (in the socket D) a spiral spring, G.

The clothes being placed in the tub or 1o-v cated under the spider a, and the piston B itted in the tube A, so that the piston F may be in the socket l) and against the spring G, the piston B is moved by hand up and down in the tub, the water being thus caused to penetrate the clothes, pass through them, and carry with it their dirt or other diseoloring matter, while the spring always raises the pis ton as soon as the downwardly-exerted force ot the hand is relaxed. Thus the hand does no lifting, which is the most tiresome work, but only exerts a pressure downward.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- The combination, with a piston, B, having central socket D, of spring Gr, guide-piston F, and handle E, as described, to enable the piston or plunger B to bc guided and retracted, as set forth.

MICHAEL IV. FRY.

Wfitnesses:

B. H. LEE HAvsLn, J. B. HITE. 

